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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, hosted on July 25, 2013.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode, The pessimist is someone who's waiting for it to rain. I'm Steve Merski. On this episode,

A pessimist is someone who's waiting for it to rain. I'm drenched to the skin.

And that is Nobel Prize winning chemist Harry Croto. He shared the 1996 Chemistry Nobel for the discovery of Fularenes, arrangements of carbon atoms in the form of closed shells.

The most famous Fullerine is probably Buckminster Fullerine, also known as the Bucky Ball, C-60.

The entire class of carbon structures is named for Buckminster Fuller because his geodesic dome design in Montreal has the same configuration.

Croto was speaking to science students from all over the world at the recent Lindau

Nobel laureates meeting in Germany.

Scientific American's executive editor Fred Guterrell was there, and he spoke to

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